“Reform That You May Preserve”
by Phil Andrews This well-known adage, often erroneously attributed to Benjamin Disraeli, was actually coined in an 1831 speech by Thomas Babington Macaulay, the famed British historian and Whig politician. When the Whigs (the forerunners of the Liberal Party) took office under the leadership of the Earl Grey, Britain was a fractious and turbulent place. […]
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